--- title: Carmat Artificial Heart Receiver Dies After 75 Days description: Three more patients are due to receive similar devices in clinical trials canonical: https://time.com/12050/worlds-first-artificial-heart-receiver-dies-after-75-days/ author: Per Liljas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-04T06:25:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:33:30.054Z article:section: Health og:title: Carmat Artificial Heart Receiver Dies After 75 Days og:description: Three more patients are due to receive similar devices in clinical trials og:url: https://time.com/12050/worlds-first-artificial-heart-receiver-dies-after-75-days/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74b6a05aaf26c7fd/698683c23bc999009c1a2246/artificial_heart_0304.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: artificial_heart_0304 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carmat Artificial Heart Receiver Dies After 75 Days twitter:description: Three more patients are due to receive similar devices in clinical trials twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74b6a05aaf26c7fd/698683c23bc999009c1a2246/artificial_heart_0304.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The First Person to Receive a Carmat Artificial Heart is Dead After 75 Days > Sponsored content. 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A spokeswoman for Carmat, the company that produces the bioprosthetic device, said that “Carmat wishes to pay tribute to the courage and the pioneering role of this patient and his family, as well as the medical team’s dedication.” Three other patients with terminal heart failure are about to have similar artificial hearts implanted. While the devices are designed to last for up to five years, the clinical trials will be considered a success if the patients survive for more than a month. Carmat is not the only kind of artificial heart available. Syncardia produces artificial hearts that have been implanted in about 1,200 patients, with the longest living for just under four years before receiving a real heart from a matching donor. Syncardia’s artificial hearts are designed to keep patients alive while waiting for a real heart transplant, while Carmat intends its hearts to be permanent implants for terminally ill patients who are unable to receive real organs because they are too old or because donors are too scarce. \[[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/03/us-carmat-death-idUSBREA221YB20140303)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12050/worlds-first-artificial-heart-receiver-dies-after-75-days/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12050/worlds-first-artificial-heart-receiver-dies-after-75-days/"},"headline":"The First Person to Receive a Carmat Artificial Heart is Dead After 75 Days","datePublished":"2014-03-04T06:25:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:33:30.054Z","description":"Three more patients are due to receive similar devices in clinical trials","url":"https://time.com/12050/worlds-first-artificial-heart-receiver-dies-after-75-days/","keywords":["Heart Disease","Dead"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74b6a05aaf26c7fd/698683c23bc999009c1a2246/artificial_heart_0304.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Per Liljas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/per-liljas/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74b6a05aaf26c7fd/698683c23bc999009c1a2246/artificial_heart_0304.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"artificial_heart_0304","caption":"An employee of the French CARMAT company inspects an artificial heart on Sept. 24, 2009 in Velizy, Paris suburb","creditText":"Franck Fife / AFP / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/heart-disease/","name":"Heart Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/12050/worlds-first-artificial-heart-receiver-dies-after-75-days/","name":"The First Person to Receive a Carmat Artificial Heart is Dead After 75 Days"}}]}] ```